Wish It Were So - with audio

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When I was a boy so little and so young

Mama taught me many songs that I still hum

Lots of funny tunes that we had sung

Telling tales of many journeys begun

About Rip van Winkle and  ESOPs fables

Three cornered hats and schnitzel tables

Mother Goose fairies’ gold would spin

And stories from Brothers Grimm

Well I’d let out a sneeze and the birds in the trees

Would fly and float down on the breeze

Then they’d sit right here upon my knees

And we’d whistle out sweet melodies

About flying in the heavens over deep blue seas

Then they’d tell me ‘bout the beautiful things that they see

The secrets of  the flowers and the buzzing of the bees

And the mysterious whispering breeze

Don’t you know I wish it were so

Don’t you know I wish it were so

All the colorful pictures

The princesses and witches

Don’t you know I wish it were so

We would sail the oceans blue and true

We would climb the mountains me and you

Love would fill our young hearts with the sun

And we would have nothing but fun

Well the dwarves would scare the little snitches

Who got too big for their bright red britches

Then we'd go outside and make angels in the snow
Don’t you know I wish it were so

There'd be Houses made of cake and candy

Lots of Boys and girls dressed so dandy

Warm cookies in the kitchen

And Huck Fin is gone a fishin

Don’t you know I wish it were so

Dancing in the pouring rain

Floatin paper boats down the storm drain

Our days were played in song and dream 
Don’t you know I wish it were so!

Don’t you know I wish it were so

Don’t you know I wish it were so

All the colorful pictures

The princesses and witches

Don’t you know I wish it were so

We would sail the oceans blue and true

We would climb the mountains me and you

Love would fill our young hearts with the sun

And we would have nothing but fun